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Wednesday, December 9, 2020
It was 40 years ago this week
It was 40 years ago, less a day, on Monday, December 8, at 10:50 pm, in front of his home at the Dakota Apartment Building, John Lennon was gunned down and murdered by Mark Chapman. It’s become one of those dates where many of you from that era will probably still remember where you were when you first heard about it. In my case, I was fast asleep, as I had to get up at four in the morning to prepare for my 6:00 am morning show at CHYR. Bill Taylor, working the evening shift at the station, called and woke me up sometime shortly after 11:00 pm to say he heard Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football say that John Lennon was shot in New York City. My first reaction was, “Well, New York’s a dangerous city,â€? and I wondered how badly he was injured – maybe getting a bullet in the arm or the leg or something? So, I turned on the TV to get an update and SNOW SCULPTURE shortly afterwards, heard LEAMINGTON — The first snowfall means many things to many people, but for Leaming- Howard Cosell give us ton’s Jeff Myer, the snow gives him a creative outlet. Known for coming up with unique snow the grim news by saying, sculptures in his yard, Myer decided to create a Mandalorian Knight complete with Baby “John Lennon, outside Yoda. Here, he poses with his creation and his dog Cooper. Photo submitted his apartment building on the west side of New Since 1996 DELIV OOM E R R A G Y York City; the most faV N AILAB DINI W OPEN LE NO mous perhaps of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt TUESDAYS WEDNESDAYS THURSDAY Hospital‌ dead on arRAY 1/2 Rack of rival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash.â€? 1 LB No kidding. Howard ONLINE ORDERS at raysribhouse.com was so right about that. 17 Robson Rd. Take out or Dine in 519-322-5940 Anything of this nature Mon-Sat. 2-8 pm is shockingly sad, but
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FLASHBACK RADIO with Chuck Reynolds made all the more disturbing by the incredibly positive situation going on at this time in 1980 with John, Yoko and their five-year old son, Sean. After Yoko had sent John away to the west coast in the mid-70s, where he proceeded to spend a wild 18-month alcohol-and-drug-induced binge in Los Angeles, with some of his other rock artist friends, he returned to Yoko in New York to their home on the 7th and top floor of the Dakota building, sober and cleaned up. There, they finally managed to have a baby after several miscarriages in the five years before that. There was so much joy and happiness in the Lennon household when Sean was born on John’s birthday, October 9, 1975. John spent most of the next five years proudly being a house husband: making bread, cooking meals and taking care of Sean, while Yoko took care of business. It was a peaceful time for John, who hardly wrote anything during that restful and domestic
period. He loved New York and often walked in the city and through Central Park, which was right across the street from his home. However, in 1980, after hearing his former partner Paul McCartney hit the top of the charts in May and June with his ‘live’ robust remake of “Coming Up�, a song that John really liked the original version of, he was more than inspired to get back into the studio in August. There, he wrote and recorded many new songs along with Yoko, who wrote just as many. Together, they created a vibrant and musically diverse album, aptly titled ‘Double Fantasy’, that kicked off with the release of the incredibly positive attitude of John’s hit single, ‘Starting Over’. It climbed the charts quickly and reached the Top 10 in the middle of November, before hitting the number one spot in December - just three weeks after his death. Sadly, ‘Starting Over’ had an ending far too soon.
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